Fran Ilich

Fran Ilich is a media-artist, essayist and novelist. He is the author of the novels Metro-pop and Tekno Guerrilla. His forthcoming novel Circa 94 won the binational award Frontera de Palabras / Border of Words and his book-length essay Otra narrativa es posible will also be published this year. He is currently working on a book about the material and ideological possibilities for narrative in the digital age with a year-long fellowship from FONCA.

Ilich is the founder of Borderhack; he headed the Literature department at Centro Cultural Tijuana; he was the screenwriter for Interacción, a television program for Discovery Channel Latin America; in Mexico City he was Editor-at-Large for Sputnik Cultura Digital magazine and worked as a researcher at Centro Multimedia; and he directed seminars on narrative media for the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía in Sevilla. He has participated in Berlinale Talent Campus, Transmediale, ARCO, Documenta 12, How Latitudes Become Forms at the Walker Art Center, Streaming Cinema Festival, Antídoto and the EZLN's Festival Mundial de la Digna Rabia (by personal invitation of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos). He is studying an M.A. in Media Art Histories at Donau-Universität Krems, in Austria with a scholarship from the Leonardo Foundation.

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Mini Arcade at Eyebeam Bookstore is an experimental installation consisting of 3 pieces by Kaho Abe, Fran Ilich and Matthew Parker. Inspired by game centers of the '80s, the exhibition aims to examine how game centers can exist in the present to create a physical location for game play.

The political imagination and the collective intelligence
a workshop by Jennifer Flores Sternad & Fran Ilich
This workshop will explore questions related to the potential of the space of production, as well as the cultural practices involved in social transformation and the creation of radical political projects (and ther imaginaries). Taking into account the place cultura occupies in contemporary social orders (and the one they could have in possible social orders) can open possibilities for creation that are innovative, artistically creative, as well as engaged with the present.
In Friday's public session (5pm - 8pm) the participants will be:
Jennifer Flores Sternad, Alberto HIjar, Cristina Hijar and Fran Ilich, with Inti Meza Villarino as moderator

Eye To Eyebeam is a series on Eyebeam's residents and fellows. It includes interviews, photos, and other news and is authored by Eyebeam intern Katherine DiPierro. These interactive posts offer visitors the opportunity to learn more about Eyebeam's diverse community of creative practitioners.
Each week, you'll see interviews profiling individual Eyebeamers. Artists who have already engaged in conversation about their projects include: